Interiority and Law: Bahya Ibn Paquda and the Concept of Inner Commandments - Couverture rigide

Michaelis, Omer

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1503636615 ISBN 13 : 9781503636613

Editeur : Stanford University Press, 2023

Synopsis

Interiority and Law presents a groundbreaking reassessment of a medieval Jewish classic, Ba?ya ibn Paquda's Guide to the Duties of the Hearts. Michaelis reads this work anew as a revolutionary intervention in Jewish law, or halakha.

Overturning perceptions of Ba?ya as the shaper of an ethical-religious form of life that exceeds halakha, Michaelis offers a pioneering historical and conceptual analysis of the category of "inner commandments" developed by Ba?ya. Interiority and Law reveals that Ba?ya's main effort revolved around establishing a new legal formation—namely, the "duties of the hearts"—which would deal entirely with human interiority. Michaelis takes up the implications of Ba?ya's radical innovation, examining his unique mystical model of proximity to God, which he based on an increasingly growing fulfillment of the inner commandments. With an integrative approach that puts Ba?ya in dialogue with other medieval Muslim and Jewish religious thinkers, this work offers a fresh perspective on our understanding of the interconnectedness of the dynamic, neighboring religious traditions of Judaism and Islam.

Contributing to conversations in the history of religion, Jewish studies, and medieval studies on interiority and mysticism, this book reveals Ba?ya as a revolutionary and demanding thinker of Jewish law.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Omer Michaelis is Senior Lecturer of Jewish Philosophy at Tel Aviv University.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Stanford University Press
• Date d'édition: 2023
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1503636615
• ISBN 13: 9781503636613
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 208
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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